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On 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (“Geha”) board, discussion has heated up over price cuts on the Nintendo Switch 2 console. One post cited Edion’s inventory list showing “only 2 units sold in a week, 615 left,” while another reported that Yodobashi Camera’s third round of price cuts had brought the Splatoon bundle down to an effective price of around 1,600 yen. Commenters pointed out that electronics retailers are even absorbing credit card fees and shipping costs on top of the discounts, and some claimed the Switch 2 version of Elden Ring sold only 20,000 copies in its first week, fueling a heated debate over sales trends.
What people said
Apparently even Edion's stock isn't moving much
https://imgur.com/P9Swbsu.jpeg
https://imgur.com/gacpOB7.jpeg
Even at Edion the stock's just piled up and not moving at all
https://imgur.com/nGyPXYv.jpeg
https://www.edion.com/item_list.html?c_cd=001010019001
Sold 2 units in about the last week
615 left
At this rate it'll take like 10 years to sell out
Guess it won't move at all unless they fire-sale it lol
Previews of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake were held behind closed doors at Gamescom, on Monday and yesterday, for Nintendo Europe, Nintendo of America, and others.
The NDA lifts within 10 days.
But offline impressions have already leaked out ahead of time, and they're full of disappointment.
Apparently it's just a simple 1.1-style remake, Star Fox-style.
Sounds like Zelda's gonna flop too, huh lol
Let's get our lines ready now:
"Sold better than expected"
"Well, it's just a remake, so that's about right"
Add "it's a slow-burn seller" to the excuse list too (jiwa-ure = "gradually selling" cope term)
With Switch 2 it's always some excuse — "it's just a remake so it won't sell," "it's just a spin-off so it won't sell"…
Splatoon Raiders bundle at an effective 1,600 yen is honestly a pretty great deal
Probably better value buying it during a Rakuten Super Sale (Rakuten's periodic point-back shopping event)
Guess it can't be helped since it's just taking up shelf space
Game console hardware is so low-margin that retailers can barely offer 1% in reward points on it
Even so, cutting the price this much AND eating the credit card fees and shipping means there's basically no profit left
Third-party games' appeal will never reach users who've been brainwashed by Nintendo
The Switch 2 version of Elden Ring only sold 20,000 copies in its first week, you know?
What are you even talking about
I'll post this on Edge (a gaming news aggregator site), so send me the tweet or thread link
https://x.com/legacyreboot/status/2095766302199607528
Previews of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake were held: behind closed doors at Gamescom, on Monday and yesterday, for Nintendo Europe, Nintendo of America, and others.
The NDA lifts within 10 days.
But offline impressions have leaked, and there seems to be a sense of disappointment.
A simple 1.1-style remake, Star Fox-style.
Re: #115
Guess that was all just wishful thinking
Nooooooooooooo
You say the same thing every week lol
You said the exact same thing last week too, Sokumin (poster nickname, from a habit of posting early sales guesses)
Turned out to be just wishful thinking
tps://i.imgur.com/NN3Z8HM.jpeg
Died laughing lmaooo
The 256GB one is only about 8,000 yen, so doubling the capacity making the price jump this much is brutal
If it had been in the same format as the main Elden Ring, the hype might've turned out differently
Like Nightreign (Elden Ring Nightreign, the co-op spin-off)
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Game console hardware is a low-margin product for electronics retailers, and posters in the thread noted that margins are so thin stores can barely offer 1% in reward points — meaning that once you factor in these discounts plus absorbed credit card fees and shipping costs, there’s almost no profit left. That said, figures like inventory counts and weekly sales numbers come from screenshots of specific stores and secondhand information shared by thread participants, not official statistics released by Nintendo or software publishers, so some caution is warranted. Likewise, the hands-on impressions of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake are based on unconfirmed rumors said to have leaked before the NDA lifted, and their accuracy has not been established.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry, “Geha”) thread “[Bad News for Nintendo Fanboys] Switch 2 Fire Sales Begin in Japan Too lol.”
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